Common Sleeping Pill May Reduce Build-Up of Alzheimer's Proteins, Study Finds | Drugs are sold out in the open in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Inside the fight to curb it | CNN | Fukushima: China's anger at Japan is fuelled by disinformation

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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Common Sleeping Pill May Reduce Build-Up of Alzheimer's Proteins, Study Finds    There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one that researchers are exploring with gusto. In a recent study published earlier this year, scientists found that using sleeping pills to get some shut-eye could reduce the build-up of toxic clumps of proteins in fluid that washes the brain clean every night. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis found people who took suvorexant, a common treatment for insomnia, for two nights at a sleep clinic experienced a slight drop in two proteins, amyloid-beta and tau, that pile up in Alzheimer's disease. Continued here Drugs are sold out in the open in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Inside the fight to curb it | CNN    The California Highway Patrol may best be known for freeway chases and the Hollywood glamour of its motorcycle cops in television shows like "ChiPs." But now the storied agency is patrolling the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin as part of a multiagency effort to crack down on rampant drug dealing that's decimating the 50-square-block area. On one day recently, CNN watched as task force members arrested a suspected drug dealer accused of selling meth and fentanyl. Inside a plastic bag: 33 grams of fentanyl that CHP officer Andy Barclay estimates, at its worst, could potentially kill thousands of people. "We're looking at around 16,500 fatal doses of pure fentanyl in that small bag. Yes, 16,500 people could potentially die," Barclay said. Continued here Fukushima: China's anger at Japan is fuelled by disinformation    Rocks thrown at schools, threats of a boycott and hundreds of hostile phone calls - these are just some of the ways Chinese people have shown their displeasure with Japan in recent weeks. The catalyst? Japan's release of treated waste water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. Scientists largely agree that the impact will be negligible, but China has strongly protested the release. Continued here

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